Install Python on Debian

How to install Python in a base Debian 7.4 Wheezy setup.

Over the years I have taught myself a handful of different programming languages. Allow me go into a little more detail: I taught myself programming just enough to get whataver job done that I wanted to get done at that time.

This article isn’t about my programming history, rather how to setup a really simple and clean Debian Linux server to begin teaching myself Python.

In my last article, I showed you how to setup a lean Linux server (Debian 7.4 Wheezy). Nothing fancy, just a terminal, SSH access, and that’s it.

This article, we are going to install Python so we can start teaching ourselves this language.